Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 12:57:32 03/12/99
I found this at the end of the PGN standard, in Tim Mann's chess page. 20: Binary representation (PGC) *** This section is under development. The binary coded version of PGN is PGC (PGN Game Coding). PGC is a binary representation standard of PGN data designed for the dual goals of storage efficiency and program I/O. A file containing PGC data should have a name with a suffix of ".pgc". Unlike PGN text files that may have locale dependent representations for newlines, PGC files have data that does not vary due to local processing environment. This means that PGC files may be transferred among systems using general binary file methods. PGC files should be used only when the use of PGN is impractical due to time and space resource constraints. As the general level of processing capabilities increases, the need for PGC over PGN will decrease. Therefore, implementors are encouraged not to use PGC as the default representation because it is much more difficult (than PGN) to understand without proper software. PGC data is composed of a sequence of PGC records. Each record is composed of a sequence of one or more bytes. The first byte is the PGN record marker and it specifies the interpretation of the remaining portion of the record. This remaining portion is composed of zero or more PGN record items. Item types include move sequences, move sets, and character strings. [big snip] Is there any program that has already implemented reading and writing pgc files?
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